decorative dead wood bits

It's Christmas time! I'm avoiding bringing in a tree for as long as I can because then I'll have to clean up after it. It's a Wishbow tradition, for sure. I think I am taking after my Dad on this one.

However, because it is the first tree I'll have since I left good old Jersey I decided to make some ornaments that the cats couldn't destroy. I got so into them I made more that maybe other people might love.






Find 'em here, 2 for 10.

I made them out of salvaged Maple just so you can put dead tree on your soon to be dead tree or plastic based tree effigy.

Chopping it up with tears in my eyes.

I made a painting a while back with an oniony theme. He's sitting on my windowsill looking pretty as the weather gets warmer. However I painted him in such dark, late fall/early winter colors. I wanted to let him have a chance to have a change in attitude for the spring and summer. So i sat down at my computer and went to work tweaking and making him again.

I assure you, we have the technology.

Car is the Cathedral of the 20th Century

For a little bit there I was in an idea block, I think I'm out of it. However unless I'm actively working on things, I feel like I'm not productive. So I dug out the first piece I ever did with a shape oriented design a few years ago in order to maybe mess with it:

I think I did this for an Illustrator based project, I don't quite remember. The whole idea was from a quote I learned in my Beat Lit class "The car is the cathedral of the 20th Century" or something similar to that.



I remade all the shapes then did a little color change. Decided I was not done and messed with color more.





Then more color messing.



I figure I'm finished with it for now. I like it all three ways, but not sure which I like best. If anything, it was fun to revisit a piece I forgot about.

Two and a half weeks until I move to Indianapolis, I'm kind of pooping myself. I have a lot of crap to pack.

Bone Daddy

While doing research for this I came to the conclusion that If I were to marry an inanimate object to make many non-babies, it would probably be a 1952 olive-gold Gibson Les Paul. Either that or a suhweet Velvet Elvis painting.

The Fox and the Phonograph

I was trying to think of things I could draw and make into prints for my Etsy. I have heard rumors around the internets that foxes just may be the cool animal of 2010. However in my opinion, foxes have always been pretty rad.

So here we go, phonographs, a fox, a chicken, and some liquid music.